Butte Creek Organic Pale Ale

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 7

Pours a slightly murky honey orange with a 1 inch foamy tan head that settles to a film on top of the beer. Foamy rings of lace line the glass on the drink down. Smell is of malt and some very mild herbal hop aromas. Taste is of toasted malt, cereal and herbal hop flavors on the finish. There is a mild amount of hop bitterness on the palate with each sip. This beer has a good level of carbonation with a crisp mouthfeel.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 5

The hops in this seem faded a bit. As with a lot of organic brews, these guys seem to have consistency issues. This is an average pale overall, but can be better or worse depending on several factors. I like the hippiness when fresh, but it becomes very dull with a little shelf time on it.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Draught@SBWF2009. Amber colour, small head. Aroma is fruity, wooden, mildly herbal as well as some slight grassy notes. Flavour is wood, herbs, mild fruits and grass.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Pours a nice amber color with smallish white head. Aroma is bitter hops with some honey sweetness. Taste is somewhat bitter but strong hints of honey and malt. Not what I would expect from a pale ale--sweet and bitter at the same time. Not fantastic but I would try this again.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 7

Poured a hazey golden-orange colour with a fluffy, creamy off white head. Aroma was semi sweet, with honey, flowers, pine, hops and grapefruit notes. Taste was light, well carbonated and citrusy with well integrated hop flavor. Finishes very smooth.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 6

Dark honey brown body that was slightly hazy (I always enjoy “slightly hazy”) crown was a touch off white and had good ropy lacing. Aroma is a descent amount of hops with a massive malt presence, it’s somewhat chocolaty and has a very strange pool water like element that I can’t help but smell. Flavor is bitter tasty hops but the hops have no identifiable flavor, tons of rich earthy malts with a milk chocolate twist, the pool water started to come out in the flavor when it was warmer. Brew was drinkable and I have nothing really bad to say about it but I’ll most likely forget about this beer by the end of the week.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 5

Dumped into my Lost Coast glass that mysteriously found its way into my jacket pocket one terribly drunken night. Very nice looking hazy more-than-midrange-amber in colour, big chunky very light tan crown that leaves a giant mess of lacing. When cold, this has a less than exciting aroma - not really drawing me to it but after warming up it shows that it has a nice but average mix of fragrant hops (maybe orange but it's weak) and English style malts, a bit of caramel and the warmer it gets, the more I keep picking up on something that reminds me of any one of hundreds of Chinese food plates. That smell finally vanishes and leaves one with a very nice soft smelling beer (quite warm now). The taste is a bit off as well but still decent enough to enjoy. There is a decent amount of soft mild caramel malts but those are quickly run over by the sharp, hard hops, crushing any malt enjoyment until you burp. Man, I should have drank this whole beer after letting it sit in my glass for 45 minuites because it is now very enjoyable - to little to late though. Very soft and medium bodied - a thick medium bodied one at that. There is a small amount of carbonation and the swish is quite pleasant. Ends with a sensory overload of high bitter hops with a hint of tasty fruit mixed in for good measure. Never really noticed that this was 5.7%. If you've ended up with this beer you probably could have picked a better APA. Totally forgettable but still drinkable.